Nevada County picayune., 1887-10-20
STANLEY BROWNS ROMANCE,

DNV HN D NUMHWUEI
 'e announcement of the en
 gagcment of Miss Mollie Garfel,
 to '' Stanly Brown makes pnbli, a romance which has for som.
 tune been known or suspected t,
 the friends of both. If the sba,,
 eyes of watchful women are trust 1 worthy il is the continuation ot ,
 lohg attachment on the part of Mir Brown,
 When Stanley Brown and Gen
 eral Garfield were first bronob,
 together Brown was a young ste
 hoerapher, with whose expertn.ss
 General Garfield was deliphted
 lie Was very quiet, rather toe modest young fellow of nineteen General Garfield thought he had lonnd treasure in the young man. tor his experience with some com. mlttee clerks had been somewha, unpleasant. He had found Brown pnnctual, quick, quiet, steady, and possessed of one qualification that especially pleased Garfield. He minded his own business. Gar. field appointed him clerk of his committee. and in that capacity Brown was thrown very much with the Garfield family. They were living in Gariield's much-mort. gagged house, where General Gar. field did great deaf of work.
 After his election to the Presi. dency Garfield was urged to ap- point one of the several young men as his private secretary. One of these was disposed to be d poll. tlclan on his own hook: another was bright but extremely vOlu- ble young man, and still another rather prided himself, somewhat to Gartields amusement. on his re. semblanct to the General.
 Garfield. however, said he want. ed as his private secretary in the White House no politician who knew more than he did, and no statesman. He wanted simply d faithful young man who would attend to the duties of the Executive office. who had close mouth and knew how to mind his own business, and he had just such a person in mind. Nobody knew who it was, and when after his in as President it proved to be young Stanly Brown, there was a good deal of surprise among the politicians.
 Brown was then only twenty one years old. He was wholly ig. norant of politics, and knew very little of politicians, except what he had learned as Garfield'S sec retary. As his taste did not run to politics he paid little heed to political matters, and this was eX- actIy what Garfield wanted in a Presidents pIivate secretary. Brown was then tall, slender young man. His hair was very light and curly, his eyes blue, his complexion rosy, and there was just struggling hint of mus tache growing. He seemed so youthful, immature and unaccus. toned to the ways of the world, and especially such an innocent boy to put in front of subtle poll ticians who daily frequent the See retary's office in the White House, that some of Gartield's friends feared he had made d mistake. To these Garfield always replied that he knew the boy, and that if he was immature he was discreet. treated Brown more like a relative than like an employee, and with the rest of the family he was looked upon as one or 'hem.
 When General Garfield went in- 10 the White House MOllie was q schoolgirl of fourteen. She was a c charming miss then. She gave not of great beauty, but of utmost attractiveness of face and form, and in disposition was called by all her associates one of the sweetest of girls Her fathers place as President never affected her simplicity of manner or her cordiality with the humblest Of her mates. She used to go trip ping up Fifteenth street to school with a lot of schoolmates. dressed more plainly than almost any one of them She was d merry elrI,